Unscramble COGNIZES and you have 184 words, COGNIZES itself among them: it scores 20 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, COGNIZE leads with 19 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from COGNIZES split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 18 with 6, 33 with 5, 60 with 4, 52 with 3 and 17 with 2.
Among 33 5-letter words from COGNIZES, the top score is 16, reached by 5. NOISE, COINS and ICONS are the familiar ones.
Among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble COGNIZES, COZE, ZINC and ZOIC tie for first at 15 points. SIGN, SIZE and ONCE are everyday picks.
COZ scores highest among the 3-letter words from COGNIZES at 14 points, ahead of ZIG on 13 and SEZ on 12. ONE, SON and ICE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of COGNIZES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with CO · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What COGNIZES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
COGNIZES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| COGNIZES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 184) | 147 | 184 | 128 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
37 of the 184 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: COZING, COZE, SOZ, ZOS, ZE, ZO, COGIES, COSING, COGIE, INGOES, ONCES, SCOG and 25 more. 19 of the 184 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ZINCOS, ZINCO, ZINES, ZENS, ZINE, SEZ, ZEN, CIGS, CIG, ECOS, ECO, NEGS and 7 more.
This word takes every letter of COGNIZES plus a single extra one.